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...time, money, and exertion is given to the cultivation of muscle in the universities; secondly, that by reason of success in athletics, the universities arrogate to themselves superiority where they do not possess it; thirdly, that other colleges and the outside world are deluded into this belief, and fall down and worship the gilded calf. We remember hearing a young sport say in a library in this city: 'There's no doubt about Harvard. I would n't give two cents to graduate at Yale. I graduated at Harvard.' Better no education at all than such an education...
...Gymnasium will be finished in March if the weather permits the workmen to get the roof on before the first heavy fall of snow. If not, the interior will not be finished until next summer...
ATHLETICS.Taken as a whole, the times made at our fall meeting on last Saturday were fairly good. The track, of course, was rather slow, but not as much so as was generally supposed, as the time in the 100-yards, 220-yards, and hurdle-race will show, all these times being most excellent. Several men have said that the track is over distance, and that it should have been a fifth-mile measured eighteen inches from the pole. The track was laid out by a surveyor, and is a fifth-mile measured about two inches from the pole. Perhaps...
Columbia College Fall Races. - These races were rowed on October 26, over a one-mile course, in the presence of a large crowd of spectators. W. B. Parsons, '79, walked over for the single sculls in 7 min. 33 sec. '79 won the six-oared barge race in 5 min. 33 sec, '82 second, '81 third. Eldridge, '79, and Brown, '78, won the pair-oared race, beating Ridabock, '79, and Fiske, '81, in 7 min. 30 sec. College beat School of Mines in the four-oared barge race in 6 min. 51 sec. There were also some tub races...
...They all got well away, and for the first lap maintained nearly their relative positions. On the second lap Parker lost ground a little, and Swan began creeping up. Parker soon fell behind, and it was evident he was suffering from the effects of a recent fall. Swan gradually but surely decreased the distance between himself and Sturgis. Sturgis rode a brave race. On the last quarter of the last lap they were neck and neck, and, as they came driving down the home stretch, the excitement was intense, the cries of each man's friends resounding loud and long...